Stutz Artists Association Residency AWARD

For over 20 years, the Stutz Artists Association (SAA) has offered free studio space (valued at approximately $6,000) to up to two central Indiana emerging artists in Central Indiana annually making it one of the largest grants from a local arts organization offered to individual visual artists in central Indiana.

Each artist will receive access to their own studio space for the duration of their residency and access to and support from the community of Stutz artists.

Shelby Alexander and Rebecca Zink have been selected to receive the SAA Residency Awards for 2017

Since 1996, the Stutz Residency program has granted free studio space for a year to local emerging artists. After spending a formative year at the Stutz, 31 Residency artists have gone on to be some of the most accomplished artists in Central Indiana and beyond. Read more here.

Rebecca Zink

Since its inaugural year in 1996, the residency program has provided in-kid contributions of more than $135,000 to 31 local artists. Artists who spent a formative year as a Stutz Resident are among the most well known, accomplished and respected professionals in Indianapolis’ arts community. Previous residency grant recipients are: